{"id":284578,"date":"2018-09-10T06:48:01","date_gmt":"2018-09-10T06:48:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2018\/09\/10\/to-all-the-young-people-who-are-here-today-there\/"},"modified":"2018-09-10T06:48:01","modified_gmt":"2018-09-10T06:48:01","slug":"to-all-the-young-people-who-are-here-today-there","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2018\/09\/10\/to-all-the-young-people-who-are-here-today-there\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>To all the young people who are here today, there are now more eligible voters in your generation than in any other, which means your generation now has more power than anybody to change things. If you want it, you can make sure America gets out of its current funk. If you actually care about it, you have the power to make sure we seize a brighter future. But to exercise that clout, to exercise that power, you have to show up. In the last midterm elections in 2014, fewer than one in five young people voted. One in five. Not two in five, or three\u2014one in five. Is it any wonder this Congress doesn\u2019t reflect your values and your priorities? Are you surprised by that? This whole project of self-government only works if everybody\u2019s doing their part. \u2026 if you thought elections don\u2019t matter, I hope these last two years have corrected that impression.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'>\n<p>President Obama, today.<\/p>\n<p>Please please <b>please<\/b>\u00a0make sure you are registered to vote. You can easily confirm your registration, file a new registration, and locate your polling place at <a href=\"http:\/\/iwillvote.com\" target=\"_blank\">iwillvote.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To all the young people who are here today, there are now more eligible voters in your generation than in any other, which means your generation now has more power than anybody to change things. If you want it, you can make sure America gets out of its current funk. If you actually care about &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2018\/09\/10\/to-all-the-young-people-who-are-here-today-there\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[18336,212,60,18335,4],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284578"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=284578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284578\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=284578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=284578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=284578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}